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Research Blogging (RB) is a new blog aggregator service oriented to the blogging about peer-review research. It offers a subject hierarchy by disciplines and tools for bloggers to make their blog more RB-aware. This includes tools for embedding citations (using COinS I believe) that allow RB to extract-out the citation information and display at the bottom of the aggregation summary. The citation creation tools will also auto-populate if you have the DOI for the article. What a simple but great idea! Not everyone will be willing to hand-roll citations, especially those without a DOI. Perhaps a way to grab them from Connotea or some CiteULike is needed.

Tag Standards : Full circle for Library cataloging? It is very ironic that someone is calling for a standard for web tags (" The Need for Creating Tag Standards "). After all the body blows that Library cataloging has taken in the Age of the Web, it seems that the bloggerati are starting to run in to information management problems, ones which traditional (and more modern) library cataloging have long dealt with (not always in the best ways, BTW). While the blog entry is focuses on more mundane issues than classification, it does talk about the implications of the anarchy which is out there and how difficult this makes it if you want to get to the Semantic Web Promised Land....